California · Nonprofit
TROOPATHON
TROOPATHON (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,372 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($308,250). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $712k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Troopathon does
Mission
Dedicated to supporting the brave men and women of our armed forces. Our mission is to provide emotional and tangible support to active duty troops while deployed to combat areas around the world, as well as to offer assistance and resources to military families and veterans in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Care packages: Troopathon provides care packages to the troops. In addition, for families and veterans, Troopathon provides supplies and other forms of support.Troopathon soared in 2025, strengthening its mission to uplift active-duty u.s. Troops. New charity sponsors fueled our ability to adapt to shifting global deployments, delivering care packages to servicemembers wherever they serve. We maintained top ratings from charity navigator, guidestar, and greatnonprofits, reflecting our integrity and impact. Volunteers powered standout events like the halloween candy buy-back, 4th of july, memorial day, 9/11 and christmas packing parties. Our Troopathon radio drives and tv broadcasts amplified our reach. These efforts ensured troops felt america's unwavering support-a testament to Troopathon's dedication.
$2,376,805 spent76% of program spendingTroopathon - support for the troops rally.
$613,715 spent20% of program spendingPublic education campaigns to raise awareness and support of the roles of the u.s. Troops in combat areas.
$129,823 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,120,343.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $735k to $1.7M (+132%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of TROOPATHON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shawn Callahan
Executive director
Board chair
Howard Kaloogian
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $41k → $57k.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TROOPATHON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TROOPATHON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TROOPATHON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 85% · 2019 81% · 2020 43% · 2021 51% · 2022 45% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
26% of TROOPATHON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of TROOPATHON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $347k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
TROOPATHON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TROOPATHON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TROOPATHON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TROOPATHON?
- TROOPATHON (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,372 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($308,250). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TROOPATHON have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $712,372 in grants to TROOPATHON, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TROOPATHON?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $308,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TROOPATHON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing